We play something, we play a game. A game: that is obviously a different kind of reality than the "normal" one, and playing a different activity than the normal one. What is different? This is the question I want to clarify: What is this strange other reality that we create through play?
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''Hunt the Wumpus'' is a text-based adventure game set in a series of caves connected by tunnels. In one of the twenty caves is a "Wumpus", which the player is attempting to kill. Additionally, two of the caves contain bottomless pits, while two others contain "super bats" which will pick up the player and move them to a random cave. The game is turns, rounds and time-keeping systems in games; each cave is given a number by the game, and each turn begins with the player being told which cave they are in and […]